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Download full textPeyton, Joy Kreeft; And Others – 1988
A study of the writing of 12 sixth-grade students of English as a second language (ESL) compared the quantity and maturity of writing in three assigned tasks and unassigned entries in dialogue journals. The assigned tasks varied in topic control, audience, and purpose. Qualities of the writing were examined using measures of quantity, complexity,…
Descriptors: Assignments, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedKefford, Rod – English in Australia, 1981
Reports findings of an investigation in New South Wales (Australia) of the different demands made on pupils by the kinds of writing tasks they were required to attempt from primary to secondary school. (HOD)
Descriptors: Assignments, Developmental Tasks, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
